It's no surprise the Xbox team are working on VR – we've heard for a long time now the company has plans – but we've been left to piece together bits of information to speculate on the details.

AMD’s Corporate Vice President, Roy Taylor, may have slipped up today in announcing the company's partnership with Microsoft on VR for Xbox. While speaking of his company's past work with Sony on PSVR, Taylor also said: "and with Xbox in the future."

There’s a good chance Qualcomm already powers your smartphone, but the company wants to extend its mobile dominance to VR.

Most current mobile VR headsets require the user to slot their smartphone in – which is often a cumbersome experience. Particularly in China, standalone mobile VR headsets are gaining in popularity, and there’s a strong likelihood we’ll see a headset released this year by a major player such as...

Nintendo has often been criticised for prioritising the company’s internal developers, over-relying on historic franchises, and making it difficult for third-party studios to develop or port games with a lack of support for standard industry engines.

Epic Games is the developer behind the popular Unreal graphics toolkit and confirmed support for the Switch not long after its announcement. While in the past Nintendo has relied on its own...

Several references to ‘Windows 10 Cloud’ have appeared in recent Windows test builds and insiders believe it’s Microsoft’s answer to Chrome OS.

Reports claim Windows 10 Cloud will drop support for Win32/64 and rely on UWP apps similar to Google’s ongoing roll-out of Android support in Chrome OS. There was a time when Chromebooks were only useful for web browsing or putting together a quick...

Nintendo makes fantastic games, but it can only make so many of them at once. This is where third-party studios come in to fill the gaps between releases. Underpowered consoles and lack of promotional support from Nintendo damaged their relationship with these developers in the past and pushed them into reducing or dropping support for Nintendo's consoles in favour of consoles from Sony and Microsoft.

ZigBee has announced the development of a 'universal language for the IoT' which it's calling dotdot, and this week at CES the alliance has been showcasing the first prototypes of products speaking it.

The examples on display are based on the network protocol Thread yet use ZigBee's dotdot language to communicate – proving the language is not restricted to ZigBee products. At...

The creators of the Raspberry Pi, a small $35 computer often used for 'maker' projects, have released an OS for traditional x86 desktop computers.

Under the name of PIXEL, the primary aim of the OS is to enable Pi creators to write software which can be used across fellow devices without the need for changes. The secondary aim, and it's a bold one, is to produce the "best" computing experience...

Device manufacturers appear pleased with Microsoft's ARM support announced earlier this month, and the company's hardware partners have already begun work on new devices powered by Qualcomm processors.

Nintendo has previewed its long-awaited codename 'NX' console and sticking to company tradition it takes a refreshing approach to gaming – it now even has a name, the Nintendo Switch.

While the competition sticks to pushing as powerful consoles as possible, Nintendo is sticking to making gaming fun and versatile. After the PS Vita fizzled out, the 3DS became the sole survivor in the dedicated handheld console space...

Microsoft's impressive AR headset, HoloLens, is now available for pre-order by developers and commercial enterprises in six new countries as it reaches a new milestone towards a full consumer release.

If you're a resident of Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom, you're now able to place your order for a HoloLens unit. In a blog post, Microsoft wrote: "In welcoming these six new countries, October...

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